"I don't do what I love to do a lot of the time."
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Emma Stone quotes (page 5 of 9)
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"I'm shockingly terrible at action movies."
"You always are changed when you come back from summer camp."
"My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles."
"I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was the story of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. I wonder how much my generation knows."
"I'm a big music fan, an admirer. But I mean by no means am I about to release an album or anything."
"I've got a great family and great people around me that would be able to kick me in the shins if I ever for one minute got lost up in the clouds. I've been really lucky in that sense."
"I won't make a bucket list because I'm so afraid that I'll die and then people will find my bucket list and be, like, 'Oh, she didn't get to do that.'"
"Dancing is such a community feeling."
"Drama is hard for me. Crying is much harder for me than laughter."
"I just want to do a good job with each role that I take and continue to better myself as an actress because that's what I love about this job... being able to act and work with so many different people on such a wide range of projects."
"There's no right way. There's no measurement system. That's why, you know, art competitions are a little confusing to me. I mean, they're lovely, but so many people are affected by different people and different things in such different ways. And yeah, it's immeasurable."
"I think as time goes on, I'm trying to get less fatalistic, because that's just one of those unhealthy, kind of dangerous head spaces to get in, of not being able to tolerate sustained positive energy."
"The idea that you can't be attractive and funny at the same time is something that I hate."
"Running is bad for your knees and I like to do things I actually enjoy, like going for a swim."
"I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater."
"Oh yeah, waiting sucks."
"My hair is a battle. It's an uphill, fine, baby-haired battle."
"There are so many different areas to explore. There are so many different types of people. It can crush your dreams or help them come true."
"I just like to keep working and being able to pay my bills."